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John L. Mason - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
John Mason is a national best-selling author, popular speaker, and noted book coach. He has authored fourteen books including An Enemy Called Average, which have sold over 1.5 million copies and have been translated into twenty-five languages throughout the world.
John can be reached for speaking and media requests at 918.493.1718 or by sending an email to mmason@freshword.com
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- Enthusiasm Is An Inside Job
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] If you find yourself dog-tired at night, it may be because you growled all day. Learn to laugh at yourself. A person with a great sense of humor may bore others, but he rarely has a dull moment himself. You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unlimited enthusiasm.
- What Is One Thing You Can Do For Someone Else Who Has No Opportunity To Repay You
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Serving others is one of life's most awesome privileges. Hunt for the good points in people. Remember they have to do the same in your case. Then do something to help them.
- Life is Too Short to Think Small
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] If you devalue your dreams, rest assured the world won't raise the price. You will find that great leaders are rarely "realistic" by other people's standards. Know Your Limits, Then Ignore Them!
- A Chip On The Shoulder Weighs A Ton
[Self-Improvement:Anger-Management] When faced with the need to forgive and forget, never make the excuse, “But no one knows what that person did to me!” That may be true, but do you know what unforgiveness will do to you? What really matters is what happens in us, not to us.
- Do You Count Your Blessings Or Think Your Blessings Don't Count?
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] If we stop to think more, we would stop to thank more. Thanksgiving is the attitude of a productive life.
- Noah Didn't Wait For His Ship To Come In - He Built One
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Seize the moment! Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past. Live for today. Don't let what you have within your grasp today be missed entirely because only the future intrigued you and the past disheartened you. Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
- A Heartfelt Prayer Of God's Promises And Principles From Proverbs 19
[News-and-Society:Religion] Lord I decide to walk in integrity today. I don't want to foolishly say dishonest things. I want to be good to my soul, so I seek Your knowledge. Let me understand that haste makes waste...
- Enthusiasm Takes You Where Talent Alone Can't
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] You can't deliver the goods if your heart is heavier than the load. Count your blessings; instead of thinking your blessings don't count. You can succeed at almost anything for which you have limitless enthusiasm. The world belongs to the enthusiastic.
- If God Is Your Father, Please Call Home
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Whatever is worth worrying about is certainly worth praying about. God is never more than a prayer away from you. When you feel swept off your feet, get back to your knees.
- Don't Ask Time Where It's Gone; Tell It Where To Go!
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] All great achievers, all successful people, are those who have been able to gain control over their time. It has been said that all human beings have been created equal in one respect; each person has been given 24 hours each day. Don't spend a dollar's worth of time for ten cent's worth of results.
- Don't Build A Case Against Yourself
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] If you would like to know who is responsible for most of your troubles, take a look in the mirror. If you could kick the person responsible for most of your problems, you wouldn't be able to sit down for three weeks. It's time for us to stay out of our own way.
- If You're Not You, Then Who Are You Going To Be?
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Be yourself. Think about it: Aren't most of the discontented people you know trying to be something they are not or trying to do something they're not supposed to do? The person who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. If you don't have a plan for your own life, you'll only become a part of someone else's.
- "Never Let The Fear Of Striking Out Get In Your Way" - Babe Ruth
[Self-Improvement:Success] Stop trying to be perfect. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. We all make mistakes - especially those who do things. Failure is often the first necessary step toward success.
- Say 'No' To Many Good Ideas
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone. Becoming focused is the key to results. Perhaps no other virtue is so overlooked as a key to growth and success. The temptation is always to do a little bit of everything.
- Who Gives You More Trouble Than You?
[Self-Improvement:Success] Here's the first rule to winning: don't beat yourself. Have you found that your biggest enemy is you? Dwight L. Moody said it best, "I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself."
- Get Ahead During The Time Others Waste
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Every day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbons, tear into the wrapping, open it up. Write on your heart every day that it is the best day of the year. Life is made of constant calls to action.
- From This Page You Can Go Anywhere You Want To
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Do you know what this page is noted for? This page is the springboard to your future. You can start here and go anywhere you want to. It is not the man with a motive but the man with a purpose who prevails.
- Important Questions: 21 You Must Ask Yourself
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Learn the most important question you should ask everything you believe. Look inward, outward, and upward.
- Perseverance: A Diamond Is A Hunk Of Coal That Stuck To Its Job And Made Good Under Pressure
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] The power to hold on in spite of everything, to endure - this is the winner's quality. You will always uncover opportunity by applying persistence to possibilities. When you get right down to the root meaning of the word succeed, you will find that it simply means "to persevere and follow through."
- Stand For What's Right
[Self-Improvement:Success] The time is always right to do the right thing. You achieve according to what you believe. More harm has been done by weak persons than by wicked persons. The problems of this world have been caused by the weakness of goodness rather than by the strength of evil.
- Gain Enthusiasm: Does The Path You're On Capture Your Heart?
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] One of the biggest differences in people is their level of enthusiasm. Your enthusiasm reflects your reserves, your unexploited resources and perhaps your future. You will never rise to great heights without joy and enthusiasm.
- Are You Still Growing, or Just Growing Older?
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] Change. Does this word scare or inspire you? The truth is, life is always at some turning point.
- Facelift Guaranteed to Approve Your Appearance
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] It's called a smile. Laughter is like changing a baby's diaper -it solves a problem and makes things more acceptable for a while. A smile is a curve that helps us see things straight. The wheels of progress are not turned by cranks.
- Life Is A Lot Like The Game Of Tennis: Those Who Don't Serve Well, End Up Losing
[Self-Improvement:Success] How many happy, selfish people do you know? It is absolutely true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
- Live Your Life As An Exclamation, Not An Explanation
[Self-Improvement:Success] Both enthusiasm and pessimism are contagious. How much of each do you spread? Your words reflect what you believe about your future. Just to see how it feels, for the next twenty-four hours refrain from saying anything bad about anyone or anything...
- The Secret to Living is Giving
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] One way to judge a person is by what they say. A better way is by what they do. The best way is by what they give. Giving is always the thermometer of our love for others.
- Would The Child You Were Be Proud Of The Adult You Are?
[Self-Improvement:Success] Character is the foundation of all worthwhile success. A good question to ask yourself is: "What kind of advice do I give others that I need to follow myself?"
- Everything Great Started As Somebody's Daydream
[Self-Improvement:Success] Successful people are first dreamers. Dream about the future and act before it occurs. The person with imagination is never alone and never finished.
- None of the Secrets of Success Will Work Unless You Do
[Self-Improvement:Success] You can't fulfill your destiny on a theory... it takes WORK. The only time a lazy person ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing. What you believe doesn't amount to very much unless it causes you to climb out of the grandstand and onto the playing field.
- There Are No Unimportant People
[Self-Improvement:Success] Your life makes a difference. Although we're all different, no mixture is insignificant. Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if the only birds that sang were those that sang the very best.
- The Most Unprofitable Item Ever Manufactured Is An Excuse
[Self-Improvement:Success] When it comes to excuses, the world is full of great inventors. Some people spend half their lives telling what they are going to do, and the other half explaining why they didn't do it. Find a way, not an excuse.
- Broken Promises Cause The World's Greatest Accidents
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] You can't make wrong work. Everything you add to the truth, you inevitably subtract from it. It's discouraging to think that people nowadays are more shocked by honesty than by deceit. Never view anything positively that makes you break your word.
- Dig For Diamonds, Don't Chase Butterflies
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Determine what you really want and what God has for you. This will keep you from chasing butterflies and put you to work digging for diamonds.
- The Sky's Not The Limit!
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] No one can put a limit on you without your permission. Beware of those who stand aloof and greet each venture with reproof; the world would stop if things were run by men who say, "It can't be done."
- Invest In Others
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] I have found that really great men have a unique perspective. That perspective is that greatness is not deposited in them to stay but rather to flow through them into others. Assign yourself the purpose of making others happy and thereby give yourself a gift.
- If Envy Had A Shape It Would Be A Boomerang
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] It's not trying to keep up with the Jones' that causes so much trouble. It's trying to pass them. Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.
- A Heartfelt Prayer Of God's Promises And Principles From Proverbs 13
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Thank you, Lord, for helping me to say the right words. When they come out of my mouth they produce good fruit in my life. Remove me from an argumentative or evil vocabulary. Show me today when to keep my mouth shut and how to control my tongue...
- The Most Dangerous Place To Be Is In The Middle Of The Road
[Self-Improvement:Success] "My decision is maybe and that's final!" Is this you? Have you ever noticed that some of the most miserable people in the world are those who can never make a decision? Being decisive is an absolute key to a successful life. Every accomplishment, great or small, starts with a decision.
- Ask Yourself this Question, "What Am I Really Aiming At?"
[Self-Improvement:Success] Delegate, simplify or eliminate low priorities as soon as possible. There are too many people in too many cars, in too much of a hurry, going too many directions, to get nowhere for nothing. Without focus, there is no peace.
- Questions
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Both enthusiasm and pessimism are contagious. How much of each do you spread?
If someone were to pay you ten dollars for each kind word you spoke and five dollars for each unkind word, would you be rich or poor?
- Never Let Yesterday Use Up Too Much Of Today
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Yesterday ended last night. So today it is more valuable to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. Regret looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up.
- Everything Big Starts With Something Little
[Self-Improvement:Success] I can remember a time in my life when I was literally frozen with fear at what God had called me to do. It seemed so huge a task that I was unable to bring myself to face it. A friend came to me and spoke two words that broke that paralysis in my life. He said simply, "Do something!"
- Today Is The Day To Decide To Go Through What You've Been Going Through
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Stop talking constantly about the situation you are "going through." Decide today to get on through it! Don't accept your present, temporary situation as your future, permanent situation.
- God Will Use You Right Where You Are Today!
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] You don't need to do anything else for God to use you now. You don't need to memorize another scripture, plant another seed gift, or repeat another creed or confession. God uses willing vessels, not brimming vessels.
- Think Thanks
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Be aggressively thankful. When it comes to living, do you take things for granted or take them with gratitude? Thanksgiving is the attitude of a productive life.
- Retreat to Advance
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] Sometimes the most important and urgent thing we can do is get away to a peaceful and anointed spot. As we choose to draw away for a time, we can see and hear much more clearly about how to go ahead.
- If The Shoe Fits, Don't Wear It!
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Talk with people smarter than you. Listen to those more insightful than you. Ask questions of those more successful than you. Lend a hand to those less fortunate than you. Don't stay where you are.
- A Heartfelt Prayer Of God's Promises And Principles From Proverbs 7
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Lord, I want to keep Your words and capture Your commandments deep within me today. Doing this frees me to live a wonderful life...
- Have Enough
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] Have honesty enough to never have to remember what you said
Have mercy enough to forgive and forget
Have compassion enough to be moved by the needs of others
Have focus enough to say no to many good ideas...
- There Is No Revenge So Sweet As Forgiveness
[Self-Improvement:Anger-Management] Forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them more. The only people you should try to get even with are those who have helped you.
- Know Your Limits, Then Ignore Them!
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Life is too short to think small. No one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings.
- Never Surrender Your Dream To Noisy Negatives
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Nobody can ever make you feel average without your permission. Ingratitude and criticism are going to come; they are a part of the price for leaping past mediocrity.
- Nothing Significant Was Ever Accomplished By A Realistic Person
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] You can’t test your destiny cautiously. The key is: forfeit the safety of what we are for what we could become. Always pick an obstacle big enough to matter when you overcome it.
- When God Made You It Put A Smile On His Face
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Yes, that’s what the book of I Corinthians tells us! So, why then do so many people not accept the way God made them? And even more incredibly, try and change the way God made them?
- Passion Is Powerful!
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] Ignore what you are passionate about, and you ignore one of the greatest potentials inside you. Many winners are ex-losers who got passionate...
- If You are Only Looking Out for Yourself - Look Out!
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] Egotism is the only disease where the patient feels well while making everyone else feel sick. Those who sing their own praises seldom receive an encore. The truth is, no one makes it on their own. Don't become a legend in your own mind.
- While an Original is Always Hard to Find, He is Easy to Recognize
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Nobody can be you as efficiently and as effectively as you can. When you fully use the gifts you have, people call you gifted. One of the hardest things about climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd of copies at the bottom.
- Ten Truisms that Aren't True
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] "Activity equals accomplishment." False. Activity is not accomplishment. Hard work is not results. We should not ask ourselves whether we're busy, but what we're busy about.
- Stop Every Day And Look At The Size Of God
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] No problem is too large for God's intervention, and no person is too small for God's attention.
- Go Out On A Limb - That's Where The Fruit Is
[Self-Improvement:Success] If you're going to climb Mount Everest, bring along the American flag. Go from looking at what you can see to believing what you can have. Don't undertake a plan unless it is distinctly important and nearly impossible. Don't bunt - aim out of the ballpark. Learn to be comfortable with big dreams.
- Expect the Opposite
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Fear is a poor chisel to carve out your tomorrow. Worry is simply the misuse of God's creative imagination which he has placed within each of us. It is the triumph of fear over faith. When fear rises in our mind, we should learn to expect the opposite...
- Get Up One More Time Than You've Fallen Down
[Self-Improvement:Success] Have you ever failed or made a mistake? Good, then this nugget is for you. The fact that you've failed is proof that you're not finished. Failures and mistakes can be a bridge, not a barricade, to success. Successful people believe that mistakes are just feedback.
- Fear Wants You To Run From Something That Isn't After You!
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Our worst imaginations almost never happen, and most worries die in vain anticipation. Fear of the future is waste of the present. Fear not tomorrow...
- Get Out Of The Middle Of The Road!
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Your destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. Many people have the right aims in life - they just never get around to pulling the trigger. The key to your future is that you can still choose...
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